Art going in architecture on Patrick’s Hill

CORK CITY will have a new landmark design building later this year, in one of it most prominent settings - half way up the vertiginous St Patrick’s Hill. A school redevelopment there has been designed by the winners of the 2015 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey.

The couple head up the globally-recognised practice O’Donnell + Tuomey, which is now on site at the multi-million euro new St Angela’s School building project. It involves integrating a number of Victorian buildings with new, multi-layed structures, on a complex and highly visible hillside site.

Now, this week the chance to design an artwork to be sited at the completed school for 530 pupils is up for offer under the One Percent For Art scheme, via the National Sculpture Factory. The commission is worth €50,000 — the kudos of siting a work in an O’Donnell + Tuomey project will be as rewarding, given their preeminence and global recognition.